Bug report for Cloudinary iOS SDK

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Describe the bug in a sentence or two.

Memory Leaks and Retain Cycles

Issue Type (Can be multiple)

[ ] Build - Can’t install or import the SDK
[x] Performance - Performance issues
[ ] Behaviour - Functions aren’t working as expected (Such as generate URL)
[ ] Documentation - Inconsistency between the docs and behaviour
[ ] Other (Specify)

Steps to reproduce

We see this after using .createUploader().signedUploadLarge

Error screenshots or Stack Trace (if applicable)

Build/Dependency management

[ ] Cocoa-Pods
[ ] Carthage
[ ] Manual import
[x] Other (SPM)

Is the issue reproducible only on a specific device?

[x] No
[ ] Yes (specify model + iOS version)

Versions and Libraries (fill in the version numbers)

iOS Cloudinary SDK version - 5.1.0
OSX (on the dev environment) - MacOS 15.0.1
XCode - 16.0
Swift - 5
Target iOS - iOS 18.1

Repository
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